​A Virginia man was taken to a mental hospital after he approached a predominantly African-American church on Thursday, shouting racial slurs and threatening to kill congregants. It follows Wednesday's shooting of nine people at a church in Charleston.

A video posted by local
news outlet WRIC shows the white man outside United Nations
Church International in Richmond, rapping on a window and
shouting racial slurs.

"All I know is he had a weapon in his hand, banging on the
glass, and calling us n*****s," the church's senior pastor,
Bishop Oren Pullings, told the station.

However, police consulted with the Commonwealth's Attorney's
Office and determined that the man had not actually violated the
law. He was taken under an emergency commitment order to Tucker
Pavilion at Chippenham Hospital for a 72-hour observation.

"I never thought I'd see the day when police have to be at
church," Gleason told congregants after the incident had
ended.

The Thursday incident came just one day after the fatal shooting at an African-American church in
South Carolina, which left nine people dead. The suspect,
21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, was arrested in Shelby, North
Carolina, on Thursday morning. The shooting is being investigated
as a hate crime.